Researchers build a bridge from C to Rust and memory safety
Memory errors such as out-of-bounds reads and writes and use-after-free bugs have plagued applications for decades, causing problems ranging from minor execution glitches to global security nightmares. The infamous WannaCry, Slammer, and Heartbleed exploits, and the more recent LDAP Nightmare, for example, were all enabled by buffer overflows. These memory safety vulnerabilities stem from the…